Is it just my imagination....

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Thursday December 03, 2015 · 2:34 AM PST

2015/12/03 · 02:34

Or does it seem strange for an Islamic couple to perpetrate a random criminal act and shootout just a couple days after the Planned Parenthood shooting. Color me paranoid, but it seems that there was responsibility being placed squarely on the Right’s candidates’ shoulders for the shootings at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs, so the spotlight needed to be placed back on the “Islamic Radicals” again and off the “Christianist Radicals.” Do I read too much into this, or is it possible the dark crowd has this kind of influence…....

Call Out the Republicans for Creating the Violence in Colorado Springs

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Saturday November 28, 2015 · 1:56 PM PST

2015/11/28 · 13:56

Valerie Tarico has written a blog that sums up how I feel about my home, Colorado, being shot up once again by a mentally Unhinged human being who has been influenced by the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth Republican leaders and spokespeople...

After months of verbal assault against Planned Parenthood and against women more broadly, Republican Christianists have gotten what they were asking for—bloodshed.

On November 27, a mass shooting left three dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic just miles from the headquarters of the Religious Right flagship, Focus on the Family. Was the shooting exactly what conservative Christian presidential candidates and members of congress wanted? Maybe, maybe not. But it is what they asked for.Republican members of the Religious Right incited violence as predictably as if they had issued a call for Christian abortion foes to take up arms. Inciting violence this way is called stochastic terrorism:

“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.”

In an incident of stochastic terrorism, the person who pulls the trigger gets the blame. He—I use the male pronoun deliberately because the triggerman is almost always male—may go to jail or even be killed during his act of violence. Meanwhile, the person or persons who have triggered the triggerman, in other words, the actual stochastic terrorists, often go free, protected by plausible deniability. The formula is perversely brilliant…

Please take the time to read what she has to say. We must call out the Republicansne for the hate they create.

As human beings we each have our own set of religious beliefs/non-beliefs. When one group or sect decides that theirs is the only way and everyone else must adhere or die, we have a major problem. The right-wingers today have chosen the path of forcing their religion down everyone else’s throats and we must stop this now. It is our responsibility to protect our country from the religious minority who think their way must be your way or you should just die.

I am not talking about Muslims. I am talking about Christian Dominionists — the ones who believe in the Kingdom of Jesus. Not a democracy, a Kingdom. This is treason at the highest level. These religious zealots have infiltrated nearly every inch of our federal apparatus. [See the Military Religious Freedom Foundations’ inbox if you don't believe me... www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/...]

Yesterday it was Colorado Springs. Will it be in your backyard tomorrow?

Debate Questions and Strength of Character

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Tuesday November 03, 2015 · 5:32 AM PST

2015/11/03 · 05:32

How would Republicans and Democrats respond to the following situation?

A young girl, high school age, gets talked into having sex by her boyfriend. The condom breaks and she gets pregnant. The boyfriend bails on her.

6 years later, she is working 2 or 3 part-time jobs while she is also taking college classes, working towards a degree. Because her parents had kicked her out when she got pregnant and her state legislatures forbade her from having an abortion, she has had to raise her baby on her own. And she has done so. But now... she has a very sick 5-year old daughter who just really needs her mommy, so she loses her jobs. She has no savings to speak of and no family support, never has, never will. Some families are just like that.

How would a Democrat respond to this?

How would a Republican respond to this?

This is the question I want answered in all debates. Because the answer to this question will tell you a person's character. And what kind of character do you want our Presidents to possess?

Congressional Staffers Find Poverty Exhausting

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Thursday October 29, 2015 · 8:47 AM PDT

2015/10/29 · 08:47

Congressional Staffers had an opportunity to experience what people living in poverty have to go through to survive, and they found just one hour of it to be extremely difficult.

At the start of the event, about 50 participants took on different identities and were told of their financial and familial circumstances before being thrust into the difficulties of life below the poverty line. During the course of each of four 10-minute “weeks,” they were responsible for paying rent, buying food, taking the children to school, and either working full-time jobs or applying to them.
At various locations around the room, participants could find a grocery store and a school (which was inconveniently closed for the entirety of week three). They could also find a homeless shelter, a juvenile hall, a jail, a payday advance service and a pawn shop, places almost exclusively patronized by America’s poor.

Emergency interruptions added to the realism, such as a “health and nutrition alert,” which demanded better and more food for the family, or a “sick child alert,” which required the participant to immediately pick up the child, represented by a baby doll, and provide childcare for the rest of the week. Often times, this meant losing a job.

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Dealing with poverty’s uncertainty and anxiety left all the participants visibly exhausted. When asked, “So, how do you feel?” at the completion of the event, there was an audible and collective groan throughout the room. When asked the follow-up question, “How many families bought food all 4 weeks?” about five people in a room of almost 50 raised their hands. But when asked, “How many families were not able to buy food any week?” almost every hand was raised.

This course should be required once a year, every year, for everyone who serves in public office.

Read the rest here: https://ourfuture.org/...

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Should all politicians and their staffers be required to take a course on poverty in America?

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Should all politicians and their staffers be required to take a course on poverty in America?

Yes

87 votes

2 votes

They wouldn't understand it

10 votes

They're Not Republicans, They Are Rebiblicans

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Monday February 23, 2015 · 3:20 AM PST

2015/02/23 · 03:20

A new word for the crazy Republicans of today: Rebiblicans, a group of people who believe in Fox News, the Koch philosophy, and their religion above everyone else's rights (The Buy-Bull fundamentalists). Oh, and in eternal warfare for our children.

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Should we refer to Republicans as Rebiblicans?

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Should we refer to Republicans as Rebiblicans?

Yes

37 votes

8 votes

Other than yes or no

6 votes

The Republicans' Attack on SS Disability is A Hate Crime

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Thursday February 19, 2015 · 8:50 AM PST

2015/02/19 · 08:50

They're at it again. Policians doing the bidding of their oligarch bosses rapidly shredding the disabled's last lifeline.

The US Department of Justice defines a hate crime as "the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious, sexual orientation, or disability." By coming after Disability funding, as the Republicans did immediately upon taking control of both the House and the Senate, they committed a hate crime according to law.

Why should the disabled have to justify their existence just to satisfy the frail egos of some of the scummiest politicians to have ever existed? And why in the world would those politicians be so scummy as to attempt to shred the last lifeline for millions of people who cannot speak for themselves? And what is the motivation behind the people who bought and paid for those politicians? To prove what scum of the earth they actually are?

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Thursday February 05, 2015 · 8:40 AM PST

2015/02/05 · 08:40

The Republicans are starting to fall all over themselves once again with the "I" word so perhaps the best thing we can do is to impeach their top guy first. Of course it's not Boehner, Paul, or Cruz, it is Murdoch. How has it happened that a foreigner the likes of Murdoch has come to control so much of the policy of our great nation?

Now, I am just a regular American, not a fancy-dancy wordsmith like Luntz's group of word-twisters, but what I do know is that Americans are being lied to and that just makes me want to stand on top of a very tall stage, at an imposing podium, and shout, "STOP, JUST STOP!" (Or as Phoebe in the show Friends once said, "Stop the Madness!!")

With the drumbeat of World War 3 closing in on all of us who believe in a more peaceful world, all I can do and think to do is to try to shut out the hate creators, the on-screen shills and say, "NO! You cannot have our children anymore, never again, to fight your dirty wars, your insane lust for more power, more control, more money!"

And Rupert Murdoch's empire is leading the pack.of these mean-mouthed war whores.

So let's impeach him instead, for making people angry at their neighbors and their family members, for intentionally creating a divide where none should exist. The man's evil empire should be driven from this land for treason and for inciting violence.

[author's note: Of course, I know he hasn't been elected to anything so we cannot actually impeach him, but perhaps we could get his citizenship revoked? Do any lawyers/legal scholars out there have an opinion on the topic?]

Open letter to The Supreme Court

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Monday March 17, 2014 · 1:46 PM PDT

2014/03/17 · 13:46

no image description available — Please keep your belief system to yourself and not down my children's throat!

Please keep your belief system to yourself and not down my children's throat!

In regards to the Hobby Lobby's case regarding the birth control mandate and all the forced birth nonsense:

Contraception is expensive.
Insurance helps defray that cost.
Men like to have sex with women.
Sometimes babies happen from that!
Contraception stops unwanted babies from being made in the first place.
Fewer unwanted, unborn babies need to be aborted.
Any questions?

Great article here:
http://mediamatters.org/...

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Tuesday April 02, 2013 · 9:17 AM PDT

2013/04/02 · 09:17

The religious fundamentalists are at it again. And I am not talking about Islamist fundamentalists, I am talking about the American [Taliban] Christianists/Dominionists.

Dr. Poole, a communications professor in Florida has recently come under fire for a classroom exercise. I could quote the particulars, but please go to the source:

http://signon.org/...

The right-wing attacks on our education system are as serious a threat to our country's stability as the Civil War was in the 1800's.

Remember, the Cultural Revolution in China started with attacks on the teachers.

Let's get the Wonderful Kos Kommunity to fight back with strength. Please sign and disseminate!

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Monday February 11, 2013 · 5:56 AM PST

2013/02/11 · 05:56

Don't you ever just wish you had that one line, the one that makes your right-wing friend stop and say, "Oh, I get it! You are right!"

I am looking for as many of these lines as we can gather. Perhaps at some point we will plaster the country with billboards with them.

Let's start with free-enterprise: What they really want is free labor...

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From whose perspective does the mainstream media base the majority of their questions?

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From whose perspective does the mainstream media base the majority of their questions?

Democratic

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Republican

5 votes

Environmentalists

0 votes

Religion

0 votes

It's time to change the Message - starting with "Pro-life"

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Thursday February 07, 2013 · 8:24 AM PST

2013/02/07 · 08:24

Progressives! It is time to change the message! Let's frame the issues from OUR perspective!

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How should the right-wing abortion message be presented?

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How should the right-wing abortion message be presented?

Pro-forced-childbirth

29 votes

Pro-life

2 votes

Anti-choice

14 votes

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Is it just my imagination....

Call Out the Republicans for Creating the Violence in Colorado Springs

Debate Questions and Strength of Character

Congressional Staffers Find Poverty Exhausting

They're Not Republicans, They Are Rebiblicans

The Republicans' Attack on SS Disability is A Hate Crime

How About We Impeach Rupert Murdoch Instead

Open letter to The Supreme Court

First they come for the teachers

It's about the messaging - Looking for the Line

It's time to change the Message - starting with "Pro-life"